WP 2.0 Feed Directory?

  • Resolved Jeff

    (@jmf)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    I’m trying to clean up after jumping from WP 1.2 to 2.0, and I’d like to have everything in the right place for future upgrades. I’d been trying to get my live bookmark to load in Firefox, and noticed that, in the header of my page, this

    <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />

    is parsing out to this:

    <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”https://ferrellweb.com/wp/feed/&#8221; />

    I don’t have a ‘feed’ directory. Am I supposed to? Should I just link directly to https://www.ferrellweb.com/wp/wp-rss2.php in the header and forget about it?

    Thanks,
    Jeff.

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  • If you have fancy permalinks turned on (anything other than ‘Default’ in Options -> Permalinks), then ‘feed’ is not a real directory. If any requests come in asking for ‘feed’, the ‘rewrite rules’ just load up wp-rss2.php. The result is that the user sees the nice, pretty URL ‘ferrelweb.com/wp/feed/’ instead of the more ugly ‘ferrelweb.com/wp/wp-rss2.php’.

    If it’s working, don’t worry about it ??

    Thread Starter Jeff

    (@jmf)

    Well, the problem is that it’s not. Safari seems to pick up the feed just fine, but firefox says it ‘failed to load’.

    I *do* have fancy permalinks on, and my .htaccess looks like this:

    Options All -Indexes

    AddType application/rdf+xml rdf
    AddType application/rss+xml rss
    AddType application/atom+xml atom
    AddType application/xml xml

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php
    </IfModule>

    anything there need adjusting? (https://ferrellweb.com/wp/feed/rss/ gives me a 404 error.)

    ::Jeff.

    Thread Starter Jeff

    (@jmf)

    Ak. I got it. The base and RewriteRule were pointing to the wrong place. Another Update permalink structure showed me the error of my ways. Thanks; I wouldn’t have known to check .htaccess!

    ::Jeff.

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